Doyle Crow

Born June 19, 1924, in Scotland Ark., to the late Monroe and Velma Underwood Crow, he was a farmer and charter member of Parma VFW 7183. He served as past mayor and police chief of Parma, vice chairman of the New Madrid County Port Authority, past board member of New Madrid County Ambulance District, member of the Parma School Board and New Madrid First Alert Team. A U.S. Army veteran, having served during World War II, he served as a deacon at Parma Baptist Church for many years and was a member of First Southern Baptist Church in Malden.

On Nov. 23, 1950, at Parma, he married Alice Buttrey who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: one son, Doyle David Crow of Kennett; two daughters and one son-in-law, Deborah Susan and Jack Hatley of Cape Girardeau and Melanie Anne Crow of Parma; two brothers and one sister-in-law, Harlan and Mildrene Crow of North Little Rock, Ark. and Arvilla Crow of Poplar Bluff; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Donna and Morris Gregg of Dexter and Carolyn Landrum of Poplar Bluff; and one grandson, John Tyler Brashear of Sikeston.

Visitation is at 6 p.m. today at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the First Southern Baptist Church in Malden with the Rev. Dr. Bill Jackson and the Rev. Frank Townsend officiating.

Burial with Full Military Rites will follow in the Missouri Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield.